The Royal Wedding

[Glenn]

Yo Kobi; I take it you haven't heard that I'll be there. It'll all probably put my non-traditional @ss right to sleep with him.. my mouth open snoring....with my eighteen inch pickle hanging out of my pants like at home lol!

Originally Posted by Kobi; Plus, I bet that Philip will fall asleep during the ceremony.


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[Kobi]

Originally Posted by popcorninthesofa

Yo Kobi; I take it you haven't heard that I'll be there. It'll all probably put my non-traditional @ss right to sleep with him.. my mouth open snoring....with my eighteen inch pickle hanging out of my pants like at home lol!

Pop,

I heard your reputation has reached all the way across the pond. As such, they have changed your seat to one between Mr. Bean and the cast of Are you being served.

And, I hear your pickle needs to be properly packaged for the event i.e. hidden in one of those new Orville microwave pop up bowls.

[EnderD_503]

I'll be watching it, but just the wedding none of the pre-wedding stuff that starts at like 2am lol. At first I wasn't going to, but then it's not often that there's a royal wedding and...well...prefer Will to ol' Charlie boy. Seems like he'd make a half decent king if we're to have one anyway.

I was wondering whether this was a big thing worldwide or just a commonwealth thing...question answered, I guess.

Oh and as for festivities...nah. Some pubs are serving English breakfasts for it and I like English breakfasts...but I'm too lazy to drag my ass over to Fox n' Fiddle for that lol

[Ciaran]

I live / work in London but travelled back to my home city of Belfast last weekend and will be in Belfast until this Sunday (when the Royal Wedding is well and truly over) so that I could escape the build-up and the fake excitement surrounding it.

I'm strongly pro-British but the Royal Family has no positive meaning for me.


Leaving the above rant aside, William seems like as level-headed a guy as he could be, given his upbringing, and Kate appears an attractive, engaging young lady so I wish them both well in their union together.

[Mitmo01]

I think the brits should get out of Northern Ireland and I support Sinn Fein so no I will not be watching at all

[Ciaran]

Originally Posted by Mitmo01

I think the brits should get out of Northern Ireland and I support Sinn Fein so no I will not be watching at all

That's a provocative post and nothing to do with the Royal Wedding.

As someone with three bullets still in me due to a (failed) Sinn Fein / IRA murder attempt in 1993, I am rather sensitive on the topic. Add to that my Protestant friends murdered by the IRA through the 1970s and 1980s and you'll hopefully understand some of it?

and what is it? well, it's never sleeping at night, it's reading too much, and yet too little, into every situation. It's about understanding too much and too little at the same time.

An explicit request for the Brits (ie me) to get out of Northern Ireland, a place you've likely never been to? No chance. You are a coward.

[Mitmo01]

Originally Posted by Ciaran

That's a provocative post and nothing to do with the Royal Wedding.

As someone with three bullets still in me due to a (failed) Sinn Fein / IRA murder attempt in 1993, I am rather sensitive on the topic. Add to that my Protestant friends murdered by the IRA through the 1970s and 1980s and you'll hopefully understand some of it?

and what is it? well, it's never sleeping at night, it's reading too much, and yet too little, into every situation. It's about understanding too much and too little at the same time.

An explicit request for the Brits (ie me) to get out of Northern Ireland, a place you've likely never been to? No chance. You are a coward.

I am surley not a coward for thinking and believing that the British have no place in Northern Ireland. I have very close friends who have had family members murdered by the British and if you want to call my statement provacative go right ahead it does not change the face that the brits should go home....Im sorry that you have bullets in you, but at least your alive I have friends who have family who are not alive.....I for one am glad that I do not have to suffer under foreign rule in my homeland...and someday the people of Northern Ireland wont have to either....

[AtLast]

I will watch it and I wish them the best. I am touched by William's ways of including his mother in his marriage.

I don't have any feelings one way or another about the royal family but have followed it through the years. Maybe that is because I was put in front of an old B & W TV at the age of 4 to watch the Coronation of his Grandmother. And yes, Diana dazzled me.

I always hope for happiness when people commit to each other in whatever manner they hold as important. With this couple, I see the possibility of an actual union of love based upon their own choosing of one another. Not usually the stuff of royal unions.

Yup, will watch the wedding and be happy for two people in love.

Most of my mates have no interest whatsoever in the wedding. I'm not a Royalist but neither am I a Republican (President Thatcher! 'nuff said) so it doesn't hold any interest for me apart from there being a shared national experience.

Ms.Pie-face and Ms.OrangeCounty will be having a Royal Wedding soiree with mini cucumber sandwiches and Pimms....I shall take champagne and bypass the dreadful Pimms but I shan't watch the wedding on tv.

[Sparkle]

If I were still living in London I would likely be heading to Amsterdam to escape the melee...

BUT since I'm not, I am eagerly anticipating 'The Dress' AND the best exhibit of millinery art in the world. (I am *all about* the hats).

I've also scored major Mother-Points by inviting her over for mimosas and breakfast at crazy-'o'-clock. She and I watched two Royal Weddings together when I was a child.

[Softhearted]

I have no interest in the British monarchy what so ever! So I'm not going to get up in the middle of the night to watch a wedding....

That said, I wish them the best like I would wish to anyone getting married!

[lipstixgal]

I will be watching too and want to see the dresses and the shoes, my g/f could care less!!

[Ms Witness]

My employer will have the tv tuned to it in the break room, and it would be hell to pay to change it on her lol so I imagine I will see something of it unless I opt to go out for lunch. Maybe I'll make and watch the festivities for an hour.

[JustJo]

Originally Posted by AtLastHome

I will watch it and I wish them the best. I am touched by William's ways of including his mother in his marriage.

I don't have any feelings one way or another about the royal family but have followed it through the years. Maybe that is because I was put in front of an old B & W TV at the age of 4 to watch the Coronation of his Grandmother. And yes, Diana dazzled me.

I always hope for happiness when people commit to each other in whatever manner they hold as important. With this couple, I see the possibility of an actual union of love based upon their own choosing of one another. Not usually the stuff of royal unions.

Yup, will watch the wedding and be happy for two people in love.

I'm not planning on watching....but I did watch the Charles & Diana wedding as a freshman in college with a group of friends. Diana was our age, and we were pretty taken with the whole thing.

The irony was watching what happened to her in the aftermath....and feeling like she was so ill prepared for what she was getting into.

Her death happened when I was home on maternity leave with my son....so I watched a lot of that media coverage too. (How could I not...it was on every channel).

I'm with you AtLast....my hope is that these two have chosen each other, been together and even lived together for a significant amount of time....and that Kate is prepared for what she's walking into far more than Diana was.

I wish them both well.

[TickledPink]

I'm not into it.

I say, take the money for this wedding and divide it out amongst the hungry.

[JustJo]

Originally Posted by TickledPink

I'm not into it.

I say, take the money for this wedding and divide it out amongst the hungry.

The flip side of this argument is that the royal family essentially sits on tremendous amounts of money. With this wedding, they'll be spending millions on food, flowers, clothes and more....and all of that generates jobs. Yes, the taxpayers there will pick up the bill for the security...but those are jobs too.

Not saying it's right, but I don't see the royal family just outright donating those millions....but if they spend them, generating work and jobs....that creates a positive ripple effect economically that will benefit an awful lot of people.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by TickledPink

I'm not into it.

I say, take the money for this wedding and divide it out amongst the hungry.

Let them eat cake!

(let me be...England, France, same thing).